Sweetheart's Dance

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Sweetheart's Dance
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 26, 1994 (1994-04-26)
Genre Country
Length33:03
Label Arista
Producer Pam Tillis
Steve Fishell
Pam Tillis chronology
Homeward Looking Angel
(1992)
Sweetheart's Dance
(1994)
All of This Love
(1995)
Singles from Sweetheart's Dance
  1. "Spilled Perfume"
    Released: March 26, 1994
  2. "When You Walk in the Room"
    Released: August 6, 1994
  3. "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)"
    Released: November 7, 1994
  4. "I Was Blown Away"
    Released: March 11, 1995
  5. "In Between Dances"
    Released: June 5, 1995
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Sweetheart's Dance is a 1994 album from American country music singer Pam Tillis. It is her highest ranking album on the Billboard charts, at number 6.

Contents

This album produced five singles: "Spilled Perfume", "When You Walk in the Room" (a cover of a Jackie DeShannon song), "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)", "I Was Blown Away" and "In Between Dances". Respectively, these reached #5, #2, #1, #16, and #3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. "I Was Blown Away" was withdrawn from radio after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. [2]

Track listing

  1. "Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life)" (Pam Tillis, Jess Leary) – 2:51
  2. "Sweetheart's Dance" (Doug Gill) – 3:39
  3. "Calico Plains" (Matraca Berg, Michael Noble) – 3:47
  4. "When You Walk in the Room" (Jackie DeShannon) – 2:44
  5. "Spilled Perfume" (Tillis, Dean Dillon) – 3:53
  6. "I Was Blown Away" (Layng Martine Jr.) – 2:45
  7. "They Don't Break 'Em Like They Used To" (Roger Brown, Jason Sellers) – 2:57
  8. "In Between Dances" (Craig Bickhardt, Barry Alfonso) – 3:21
  9. "Better Off Blue" (Susan Longacre, Walt Aldridge) – 2:52
  10. "Til All the Lonely's Gone" (Tillis, Bob DiPiero, John Scott Sherrill) – 3:55

Personnel

As listed in liner notes. [3]

Technical

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [8] Platinum100,000^
United States (RIAA) [9] Platinum1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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